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Historicism

A guide to enable students to understand and apply historicist approaches, this title: explains the theory and practice of historicism; presents the history of the term and its uses; introduces key thinkers in the field; and considers historicism in relation to contemporary debates, such as post-colonialism, feminism and globalization.Read more...

1. History and Historicism --
The Poetics of History --
The Nature of Historical Explanation --
Historicism and Historiography --
2. The Rise of Historicism --
Enlightenment by Natural Law --
Critique of Enlightenment --
Vico and Herder --
Kant and Hegel --
Towards Hermeneutics --
3. The Hermeneutic Tradition --
Origins of Hermeneutics --
Schleiermacher --
The Grammar and Divination of History --
Dilthey's Critique of Historical Reason --
Gadamer and the Event of Meaning --
4. Historicism and Modernity --
Marx's Poetry of the Future --
Nietzsche's Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future --
Freud, Lacan and the illusion of a Future --
5. Historicisms of the Present --
Foucault --
from Anti-Historicist Theory to New Historical Practice --
Derrida's Postcards --
New Historicism --
Postcolonial Stylistics and Postmodern Logic --
Herstory --
Globalization and the end of history.